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[fogofdread]

[The less said about how long it took him to figure out how to use this damn thing the better. He was walking and preoccupied and is not here to be judged.

He is instead here to judge someone else....even if the small five year old in his arms is probably judging him anyway.]

Would this kid's shixiong please come pick him up? I found him wandering around alone. [You know, during a kidnapping crisis. At night.] Says he can fight but I'm not lettin' a five year old wander around alone. You have an hour from me sending this to get a hold of me or I'll take him back to my place and we'll try again in the morning.

[Alibaba's going to complain, isn't he?]

Comments

[wooden_one]

How would I have known?!

[He couldn't exactly approach him while looking like this!]

[fogofdread]

You said he was busy! You didn't say what he was busy with.

[wooden_one]

That's because I didn't know! He hadn't been in jail the last time I saw him!

[fogofdread]

Just saying, all you told me was he was "busy" and now I find out he's in jail. Does this happen a lot?

[wooden_one]

[The busy part was just an excuse! He didn't expect it to be real!]

... [He wears the expression of a person who has, in fact, has to haull this particular unruly disciple out of brothels when Mo Ran had been a teenager...and had to deal with that one time when he'd robbed a courtesan and the brothel people had come to their sect demanding they hand over the money he'd stolen.

Which is to say, annoyed as he remembered all the trouble Mo Ran used to get into.

He also abruptly remembered...even more recently, before Chu Wanning had ended up here, hadn't Mo Ran just been accused of murder?]

I didn't expect it to happen here.

[Because Mo Ran had grown up and matured! He wasn't that same unruly teenager that was constantly getting into trouble!]

[fogofdread]

Yeah, some advice, kid? If it happens a lot somewhere else, a new city won't make any difference.

[Cassim why do you still think this kid is five years old?]

[wooden_one]

He's a lot older than I remember. He seems to have grown out of being a trouble-maker.

[It's probably because he has an immature streak.]